Example sentences of "and move off [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert .
2 Then , throwing her a wink , he turned and moved off into the crowd .
3 So they collected their actors and actresses , a film crew of twelve and their livestock and moved off to the Utah desert to begin filming .
4 Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry .
5 He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right .
6 Mr. Decker grinned weakly , made a vague gesture with his hand and moved off down the aisle to buy an ice cream .
7 He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby .
8 The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too .
9 We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the dense undergrowth , chopping at it with jungle machetes .
10 What is apt to happen when we strike a solid is that a whole series of stress waves radiate from the point of impact and move off into the body of the material .
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